Confessions of a late bloomer

When it feels like you might be working ...

A smile is like a face lift. That is all anyone needs. Joy shows on your face. Daphne Selfe, 97, model (pictured) Society and social media keep telling us that old age is a sad thing for women to expe

What do you think is going to happen to you as you get older? Before I started working on this story, I quietly but genuinely believed I was going to become less. Less healthy, less capable, less attr

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The TV presenter and novelist, who turns 68 this month, on weight loss, her unusual way with words, and why she has fallen in love with going to church

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and